Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-26-2023

Department

Library

Keywords

colleges and universities, open educational resources, project, Iowa, textbooks

Abstract

It began with a conversation in 2018. How could a consortium of private academic libraries in Iowa promote the use of open educational resources (OER) at their institutions? We could see the potential. An OER is defined as “a teaching, learning, or research resource that is offered freely to users in at least one form and that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an open copyright license that allows for its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with attribution” (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, Citation2021). The Iowa Private Academic Libraries consortium (IPAL) has 30 institutional members, with an average of 1,500 students at each institution. Few of the member institutions had coordinated OER initiatives or funding to support faculty who wanted to experiment with OER.

Source Publication Title

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Volume

55

Issue

4

First Page

29

DOI

10.1080/00091383.2023.2213572

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